A panorama of the world's legal systems
Subtitle: with five hundred illustrations.
By: by John Henry Wigmore ...
Publisher: West Publishing Company
Published: 1928
Place of publication: Saint Paul
Language: eng
Subjects: Law -- History.; Comparative law.
Other titles: World's legal systems.
Notes: Paged continuously.

"Of this first printing ... nineteen hundred and ninety copies have been numbered and are autographed by the author. This copy is number 357."

"The sixteen principal legal systems, past and present, form the subject--Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Hebrew, Chinese, Hindu, Greek, Roman, Japanese, Mohammedan, Keltic, Slavic, Germanic, maritime, ecclesiastical, Romanesque, Anglican."--Author's note.

"Sources of illustrations; sources of documents quoted in text; general references" at end of each chapter. "Reading-list of works in the English language": v. 1, p. xiv-xv.